Cincinnati Reds fan.
Sunday, January 19, 2025
Speaker Mike Johnson and Senators Tom Cotton and Pete Ricketts say Chicom's TikTok is toast
“The law is very precise, and the only way to extend that is if there is an actual deal in the works,” Johnson added. “I think President Trump is probably intrigued by all this and he likes to make deals, as you know. So we’re very hopeful that that can happen, and that 270 million American people who enjoy the platform can enjoy it, but enjoy it safely and not have their data being mined by our nation’s enemy.”
Saturday, January 18, 2025
David Brooks is not a serious person
And the fact that he's reelected and now about to take office and use
executive orders to wipe out a lot of things, including the civil
service potentially, or parts of it, that's just a gigantic pivot in
American history.
A president who must resort to executive orders is not consequential. The next president can wipe those out, by executive orders.
More importantly, there is nothing consequential about presidents who must pass major legislation through reconciliation rules, as Trump had to in 2017, which means the legislation is temporary by definition. Trump must now spend precious second term months on this same issue. He aims to extend his tax cuts for another period under reconciliation rules, which is fine, but that will also be temporary, not consequential.
Boehner and Obama made the Bush tax cuts, originally passed through reconciliation, permanent after Obama was re-elected in 2012. That was consequential.
The Bush tax regime is consequential. It makes Trump step and fetch it, just like Obama.
These ridiculous goofs, President Biden, VP Harris, and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand should all be removed from office before Monday
The ERA was never ratified according to the rules. Pretending otherwise and using the power of the executive to assert otherwise is a violation of their oaths of office. There is no 28th Amendment to the US Constitution. The ERA is not the law of the land. These are renegade Democrats, but I repeat myself, enemies of the rule of law and enemies of democracy. They mock us with this stunt, and deserve mockery in return.
I'm really looking forward to the Ukraine-Russia war ending on Monday, or maybe even Sunday
Here are 11 things Trump has promised to carry out on Day 1 of his presidency
... One of Trump’s most audacious promises was that he could end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours of taking office — or even before.
“That
is a war that’s dying to be settled. I will get it settled before I
even become president,” Trump said during a September debate with Vice
President Kamala Harris in Philadelphia. ...
Friday, January 17, 2025
In Gavin Newsom's anti-capitalist Hotel California, you can never sell your damaged land and leave
There are thousands of destroyed lots as far as the eye can see.
Who wants to pay the former full price for one?
The tax base has been gutted.
Thursday, January 16, 2025
Jimmy Carter's legacy: The only president ever to pardon a disgusting piece of trash who was convicted of sexually molesting a child
Peter Yarrow, of Peter Paul and Mary fame, made a 14-year old girl wank his weenie in a hotel room in 1970. He served three months for his crime.
WaPo in 2021 wondered if there were other victims.
Jimmy Carter pardoned Peter Yarrow at the last second in 1981, while we were distracted with the release of the Iran hostages and the inauguration of Ronald Reagan.
Both disgusting wankers have now died, just days apart: Jimmy on Dec 29th. Peter on Jan 7th.
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
I track average prices for over 40 basic foods in the U.S. city average: Just four made new all time highs in December 2024
Round roast $7.486/lb
All uncooked beef roasts category $7.719/lb
Table wine, red and white $13.985/liter
Beer $1.812/pint
Core cpi inflation in December 2024 yoy was 3.2%, annual average 3.43%, which was 75% worse than 2017-2020
The 2017-2020 average annual rate was 1.96%.
The four year average annual rate 2021-2024 under Joe Biden clocks in at 4.48%, almost 129% worse than under Trump I.
During 2024 the year over year measure has been at 3.3% or 3.2% every month from June inclusive, but stonks are soaring today as if something has changed.
Nothing's changed.
FBI failed to investigate Pete Hegseth, GOP Senators afraid of being primaried just fine with it
A gross dereliction of duty on the part of the Republican-controlled Senate and the Trump-directed FBI. That is a harsh but unavoidable assessment of the confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth to serve as Donald Trump’s defense secretary. ...
Only [Senators] Wicker and Reed were permitted to review an FBI report that Reed described as “insufficient.” The FBI failed to question Hegseth’s second wife, despite her expressed interest in being interviewed. It didn’t speak to the woman who accused Hegseth of sexually assaulting her — and was paid by him in exchange for executing a nondisclosure agreement. It didn’t obtain the forensic audit of a veteran’s organization Hegseth ran that found “evidence of gross financial mismanagement.”
Mayer reported that “the F.B.I.’s background investigation also failed to interview Fox News personnel who had described Hegseth to NBC News as smelling of alcohol on the job as recently as last fall. Instead, sources say that the Bureau settled for an interview with a public-relations official at Fox.”
The FBI’s role here is troubling, because the bureau is supposed to serve as the Senate’s chief source of reported and reliable information about the individuals whose nominations it is considering. ...
The bureau has argued that the scope of its inquiries is limited by the directions it is given, in this case by the Trump transition team. But the Trump team’s goal is to win confirmation, not to get to the truth of the matter — which makes a Trump-directed FBI investigation worse than meaningless; it makes it effectively a coverup.
More.
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
I don't care what you think of Senator Tim Kaine, D-VA, he nailed Pete Hegseth's unrepentant ass to the canvass
Pete Hegseth is no repentant Christian. He's a phony baloney plastic banana good time rock 'n rolla.
This man represents a new low for the GOP.
From the story here:
“I want to return to the incident that you referenced a minute ago that occurred in Monterey, California, in October 2017,” Kaine opened. “At that time, you were still married to your second wife, correct?”
After Hegseth agreed that he believed so, Kaine followed with “And you had just fathered a child by a woman who would later become your third wife, correct?”
“Senator, I was falsely charged and I fully. investigated and completely cleared,” Hegseth said of the sexual assault allegation, but Kaine pressed.
“So you think you are completely cleared because you committed no crime? That’s your definition of cleared?” Kaine pressed. “You had just fathered a child two months before by a woman that was not your wife. I am shocked that you would stand here and say you are completely cleared. Can you so casually cheat on a second wife and cheat on the mother of a child who had been born two months before? And you tell us you are completely cleared. So how is that completely cleared?”
“Senator, her child’s name is Gwendolyn Hope Hegseth, and she’s a child of God, and she’s seven years old,” Hegseth replied.
“I mean, you cheated on the mother of that child less than two months after that daughter was born, didn’t you?” Kaine pressed.
“Those were false charges. Well, no, totally investigated. And I was completely cleared. And I’m so grateful for the marriage I have to this day,” Hegseth answered.
“So you’ve admitted that you had sex at that hotel in October 2017. You said it was consensual. Isn’t that correct?” Kaine continued. “You’ve admitted that it was consensual, and you were still married, and you just had a child by another woman again. How do you explain yourself?”
“Completely false charges against me,” Hegseth insisted, even though he agreed to a non-disclosure agreement and financial settlement with his accuser.
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